Study: iPhone apps have one-night stands

A recent study found that most free iPhone apps are rarely used after the first day they're downloaded. According to analytics company Pinch Media, which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple's App Store, only 20 percent of users go back for more the following day. When it comes to paid ...

Ability to Edit, Sort & Filter Google Spreadsheets Enabled

iPhone users have long had the ability to view their Google Docs online however not edit them. Now seemingly the ability to edit, sort and filter has been added to the Google spreadsheet application.  This is really exciting news and now you'll have even less of a reason to NOT ...

Quick App: QWERTY 5-Row Keyboard for Jailbreak

Tired of hitting the 123 key to toggle on the numeric keyboard? Well, obviously some ingenious iPhone hacker was and whipped up this interesting little Jailbreak app to change the standard 4-row virtual keyboard into a five row with numbers surfaced right on top (or symbols, if you tap the shift key).

Want to grab it? Gizmodo (via iPhone Hacks) says you can find it under “5-Row QWERTY Keyboard” in Cydia”

Should Apple consider changing their own virtual keyboard to be more like this 5-row? Or are the keys on the 4-row already small enough?

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Quick App: QWERTY 5-Row Keyboard for Jailbreak

Turn-by-turn iPhone GPS app now in iTunes

A turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone, the G-Map application, already exists in the App Store. There is no monthly fee required and no internet or wi-fi connection needed. Each application (XRoad Co.'s G-Map U.S. West and G-Map U.S. East) will cost you $19.99. MacRumors shared its review: We briefly tested the ...

Sudobility Air Photo Wifi Review

Have you ever wanted to print a picture from your iphone without hooking it up to your computer? Well, Air Photo Wifi is the answer and a very good one at that...With Air Photo, you'll be able to print to your networked printer as long as you have the server ...

AT&T Having Problems in Texas Again?

Bringing this back to the top as the comments were lighting up again with Texas iPhone users not getting service. Some seem to be out, some are coming back, and others are having various degrees of luck turning on/off the 3G radios.

Let us know where you are, if you’re having trouble, and what fixes are/aren’t working for you.

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AT&T Having Problems in Texas Again?

AIM for iPhone gets location awareness, paid version

AIM for iPhone has been updated with location awareness, SMS notifications and a paid version.

Preview Website Reveals More Details of Metal Gear Solid for iPhone; Disappointing?

Review: Monopoly: World Edition for iPhone

The iconic board game comes to the iPhone in a special "World Edition."

Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users

Google has cut off users of its Developer phone from displaying or downloading paid applications.

Apple Shareholder Meeting Notes: Directors Reelected, No Change in Jobs’ Plans

Dow Jones Newswires (via CNN Money) provides a recap of Apple's annual shareholder meeting held today on the company's campus in Cupertino, the first such meeting without Steve Jobs present since his return to the company in 1997. At the meeting, sh...

Review: BeejiveIM for iPhone

If it's power you want in your iPhone instant messaging client, BeejiveIM is the undisputed king of the heap.

Live in Japan? Want an iPhone 3G for FREE?

And we thought $99 rumors at Walmart sounded cheap! According to Apple Insider, if you live in Japan and don’t mind signing a 2-year deal with official carrier SoftBank, you can take home an 8GB iPhone 3G for FREE!

No matter the exchange rate, zero is zero, so if you’ve been holding out for an iPhone of your very own, is this finally enough the sway you? And most importantly, what Emoji will you use to express your free iPhone feelings?

(For our non-Japanese readers think AT&T, Rogers, or any other carrier will match this deal any time soon..?

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Live in Japan? Want an iPhone 3G for FREE?

Smartphone Experts Roundtable Podcast 3

Join Dieter, Matthew, Kevin, Rene, and Casey as they discuss Mobile World Congress 2009 — there’s a little bit for everybody in this gigantic cross-platfrom smartphone podcast!

• Download it directly with this link
• Subscribe via iTunes
• Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here
• Listen to it here with the player above

Show notes after the break.

• Casey Chan for Android Central
• Kevin Michaluk for CrackBerry.com
• Matthew Miller for Nokia Experts
• Rene Ritchie for The iPhone Blog
• and Dieter Bohn for TreoCentral, PreCentral.net, and WMExperts

WMExperts

• Windows Mobile 6.5
• My Phone
• Windows Phones
• HTC Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2

The iPhone Blog

• Turn by Turn GPS is shown off
• Docs2Go for the iPhone is incoming
• Adobe still doesn’t get that Apple’s just not that into Flash
• AT&T talks about the iPhone because “99.5 percent of the industry is trying to copy the iPhone“.

PreCentral.net

• GSM Palm Pre
• HTML5, Google Maps

Nokia Experts

• Ovi Store
• N86, E75 and N97
• Omnia HD

CrackBerry.com

• Happy Birthday CrackBerry.com
• SurePress - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
• BB Application Suite

Android Central

• Huawei Mystery Slate
• HTC Magic
• DocsToGo
• Excellent roundup here

Credits

Special thanks to gmz for the song Parametaphoriquement, licensed under the Creative Commons at CCMixter.org

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Smartphone Experts Roundtable Podcast 3

From the Forums: Will You Purchase the Next iPhone?, Podcast Playlist?, Battery Life, iPhone 3G Bulid Quality

The forums are seeing a lot of action as of late and today is more of the same!

The rumor mills are just getting started about the next generation iPhone and you can expect that to increase by the day. Knowing that a new Apple phone is only 5-6 months away, will you be purchasing the next iPhone? Be sure to get your vote in and let us know why or why not!

The next thread comes to us from TiPb’s very own Rene Ritchie. He wants to know what podcasts are currently on your iPhone? I’m sure every single one of our readers already subscribed to iPhone Different and iPhone Live… right?

Usually the main question from someone who is looking into buying an iPhone is battery life. No different here, jstac wants to know about the iPhone 3G’s battery life. My answer is simple — all depends on how you use the device. It can be good and it can be bad.

Another question that gets asked a lot about the iPhone 3G is it’s build quality. While I personally have had no issues with mine since July 11th, other people have not been so lucky. How about you? Be sure to check out this ongoing thread on the build quality of the iPhone 3G.

To join in on the forum fun be sure to register! It’s a simple process that will only take a moment of your time.

See you on the forums!

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From the Forums: Will You Purchase the Next iPhone?, Podcast Playlist?, Battery Life, iPhone 3G Bulid Quality

MobileMe WebApp Gets New Front Page Look

Login to MobileMe’s WebApp yet today? Well if you have, you’ve seen what we’ve seen — Apple put a fresh coat of paint to the front login page, shuffling the big icons off to the side and clearing some space for a little marketing front and center.

I like the new look, but I can’t tell yet if there’s anything changed under the covers? File sharing was the last update, anyone see anything else?

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MobileMe WebApp Gets New Front Page Look

Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects

The release of the Safari 4 Beta yesterday has generated a massive number of comments. Here are a few interesting tips, tricks and observations.

CNet benchmarked Safari 4's Javascript and found it to be 42x faster than IE 7, 6x faster...

Apple Annual Shareholder Meeting Today

Apple will be holding their annual general shareholder meeting today. The Board of Directors (including Google CEO, iPhone partner, and Android rival Eric Schmidt) is up for re-election, and management will supposedly be held to answer by shareholders, but Steve Jobs will not be in attendance (he’s still out on leave), and we don’t really expect much in the way of specific iPhone news.

Of course, if anything interesting does come out, you know we’ll keep you covered.

(via TUAW and Bloomberg)

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Apple Annual Shareholder Meeting Today

CEOh-Snap! Microsoft’s Ballmer Says iPhone Has Mojo but WinPho Has Momentum!

Microsoft PR must hate it every single time CEO Steve Ballmer gets on a mic. Bloggers on the other hand…? From the latest analyst briefing:

“The truth of the matter is all the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.”

Um.. Apple and BlackBerry manufacture their own devices there Steve, so while their internal momentum is enough to steamroll an industry, ODM’s can’t get their hands on iPhone OS X or RIM’s OS no matter how badly they probably want to.

Apple Insider rightly points out, of course, that this is the same line Microsoft used about the iPod when promoting their own PlaysForSure DRM platform (which later became closer akin to PlaysNoMore).

Check out Apple Insider’s full coverage to get Ballmer’s views on Apple’s Mac, Google, Android on Netbooks vs. Windows 7, and how Microsoft could be like RCA! (?!)

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CEOh-Snap! Microsoft’s Ballmer Says iPhone Has Mojo but WinPho Has Momentum!

Review: NoteWorthy for iPhone

Roy Kolak’s app lets you pull out your iPhone, look up the artist/album/song in question, and then save it for quick, offline viewing at a later date. It’s a great little application, with a clean and easy-to-use interface.